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Wednesday: Learning

NMU Distinguished Alumni Award given

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University’s 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient is Mary Jo Mulligan-Kehoe. Mulligan-Kehoe demonstrated both patience and adaptability on her journey to a highly successful career in biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health and in ...

Fewer cubicles, more collaborative spaces projected for state’s downtowns

MARQUETTE — Remote work brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and projections that some of it will be permanent is reshaping Michigan downtowns and traditional office spaces. Workers who continue to work from home are still going out into the community and making use of alternative ...

COVID-19 creates dire US shortage of teachers, school staff

SAN FRANCISCO — One desperate California school district is sending flyers home in students’ lunchboxes, telling parents it’s “now hiring.” Elsewhere, principals are filling in as crossing guards, teachers are being offered signing bonuses and schools are moving back to online ...

Trying out trauma

MARQUETTE — Working a stressful situation as a simulation can go a long way to working it in a real-life scenario. The Northern Michigan University School of Nursing and Reserve Officers Training Corps cadet programs on Friday held trauma simulations on the grassy areas outside the West ...

Boyer-Davis receives accounting award

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University Assistant Professor Stacy Boyer-Davis is the recipient of the 2021 Accountant Teaching and Excellence Award from the Michigan Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The award recognizes educators in the profession for the crucial role they play ...

Cultural history examined in Upper Peninsula

MARQUETTE — Want to follow a group of kids as they enter sixth grade in a small Upper Peninsula town in 1957-58? With “The SideRoad Kids,” the new book of short fiction from the Ann Arbor-based Modern History Press, columnist and author Sharon M. Kennedy takes readers on that ...